Does this inspire any thinking?: (pick one or more from each grouping, e.g. Legacy Computing Cave, etc...): Animated Captivating Delightful Dynamic Early Exciting Fabulous First Frontier Fun Fundamental Immersive Interactive Inviting Legacy Live Living Playful Stimulating Vintage Brain Calculating Computer Computing CPU Data processing Electronic brain Retrocomputing Thinking Machines Arcade Arena Basement Bazaar Boutique Building Cave Conservatory Environment Exhibit Exhibition Galleria Garage Hall Museum Place Preservatory Room Space Sphere Spot Treasury Workshop Workspace Zone -----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Bob Flanders via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 3:57 PM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Bob Flanders <bob.flanders@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Should the new museum have a name? I thought that maybe we could reverse the acronym.. VCF FCV.. Like "Fundamental Computing Vault" or "First Computer Vault". I don't know that it flows. Both F and V are hard letters to use. (Thanks to thesaurus.com) Maybe a tag line in latin? Corpus Ordinatralis Antiquitum ( http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wordz.pl?keyword=+corpus+ordinatralis+ant... ) An vintage language for vintage computers? Bob On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I was thinking... should our new museum have a formal name, as in, "The XYZ Place, sponsored by the Vintage Computer Federation"...?
Or if anyone asks, do we just call it VCF Headquarters?
If we do think it should have some name, then what should that name be?
I like how Paul Allen's group calls their place a "living" museum. Of course, that word is taken, so we'd need some other word.
Maybe "museum" also isn't the right word. Our home at InfoAge is more of a hub and community center for vintage computing in the region. Perhaps, if we give it a name, we should think of a word that reflects this.
It would be awesome if the perfect word also started with F to continue our theme of the Vintage Computer Federation owning the Vintage Computer Festival (East/West), Vintage Computer Forum, and Vintage Computer... Funhouse? Fraternity? No, those don't work.
Let's hear some suggestions (real ones please; let's not clog the thread with the smart-assery.)
I'm thinking that unless we come up with something GREAT, then we should just stick with Vintage Computer Federation as the name for the physical space.